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Photo postcard from Fred Fetters, a lumberjack, to his sweetheart Bertha Thompson, a school teacher.
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Northern Trust Bank
526 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Built: 1906
This was for many years known as the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. It was designed by Ferry & Clas as a French Renaissance styled office building. It is also referred to as Beaux Arts style architecture. The small size is an interesting contrast to the architectural detailing.
The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) is a class II regional railroad operating in southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Although it retains a handful of E-unit for excursions, it owns only one F-unit, FP7 number 71A. Here it is in Lego, fully equipped with Power Functions and ready to run on the power of two train motors. Suggestions are welcome.
The Badgers do pre-game drills.
Photos from the October 12 football game between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University at Camp Randall Stadium. The Badgers won big, 35-6.
The Capitol Building in Madison. It's a beautiful piece of classic architecture and it allowed the Holsteins to show Angy a little bit of history. But chiefly, they liked the fact that it was right across the street from the restaurant.
WISCONSIN CENTRAL LTD.
It is such a rare sight to see a nice older car that has not been painted or re-stamped. Don't get me wrong, I like graffiti (obviously), however it is nice to see an older gem roll into town.
Benched in Los Angeles County, CA
Parent and child. While they did not like a larger boat, drifting in a canoe was less threatening and they got pretty close. At Pickerel Lake, Oneida County, Wisconsin
Built in 1937, this Streamline Moderne or Art Moderne-style building was designed by Lawrence Monberg for Dr. Abraham Quisling, and is known as Quisling Towers. The building is one of three notable Art Moderne-style buildings designed by Monberg for the Quisling family, whom were prominent physicians of Norwegian descent in Madison during the mid-20th Century. The building originally housed twenty-six apartment units, and despite a few systems and features being modernized, the building retains most of its historic character-defining elements. The building was built of fire resistant hollow clay tile, a common building material at the time, with plaster on the interior and buff brick cladding with terra cotta and bedford limestone trim on the exterior obscuring the structural material. The building sits on a sloped site, being six stories in height in the rear, along a private drive off of Wisconsin Avenue, and five stories in the front, along Gilman Street.
The building features a buff brick exterior with corner bands of windows featuring horizontal fins that create strong visual horizontal emphasis at the building’s corners, with casement, one-over-one double-hung, and fixed windows being present on various parts of the building. The building’s front entrance is along Gilman Avenue, flanked by low stone walls and featuring a suspended semi-circular aluminum canopy above, with semi-circular door handles and sidelights. The building’s facade is broken by thin belt coursing at the top and bottom of the windows on most of the floors, which features soldier brick courses between the second and third floors. At the base of the building and at the terraces, there are thick bands of trim with flutes that are aligned horizontally, further de-emphasizing the building’s verticality, with a stepped retaining wall at the basement light well along Wisconsin Avenue also featuring the same trim cap. On the fifth floor, the building has corner setbacks, which are home to rooftop terraces, two-story “tower” sections with curved brick piers flanking curved brick balconies with large fixed storefronts and french doors at the balconies, and stacked bond and soldier brick framing the storefronts. The fifth floor is the smallest, consisting of the “tower” with the curved brick piers and balconies on the floor below, as well as a setback section to the northeast, with two large roof terraces on the rooftop of the building’s fourth floor at the northeast end of the building. The rooftop terrace is enclosed by a modern wire safety railing, and features curved corners, following the curved corners of the fourth floor below. The rear of the building features recessed balconies enclosed by low brick walls on the exterior, which have had their views of the State Capitol blocked by an adjacent building constructed several decades later.
The building’s interior features plaster walls with a lobby featuring curved walls and a linoleum floor, recessed radiators, simple stone fireplace surrounds, curved staircases with metal handrails, art deco-style pendant and sconce light fixtures, and kitchens with the original cabinets, subway tile wall cladding, built-in cutting boards, and tile countertops. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, owing to its architectural significance. The building today is one of the most distinctive buildings on the Downtown Madison isthmus, and is an excellent example of Art Moderne architecture, and is the best preserved of the three significant Monberg-designed buildings from the time period in the Mansion Hill district. The building remains in use as a rental apartment building.
Looking skyward in a stand of birch trees, I think, in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
Female Cardinal flying over Monroe Street in Madison, Wisconsin down by the Duck Pond on New Year's Day, 2013
Madison, Wisconsin
The 3rd state capitol building stands on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota. It was designed by George B Post & Sons to replace the previous Capitol that burned in 1904. It was constructed between 1906 and 1917 for $7.25 million. The dome is the only granite dome in the USA.
The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) is a class II regional railroad operating in southern Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Although it retains a handful of E-unit for excursions, it owns only one F-unit, FP7 number 71A. Here it is in Lego, fully equipped with Power Functions and ready to run on the power of two train motors. Suggestions are welcome.
While stopped at a red light driving from the churches to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Janet spotted this restaurant, a former pharmacy. Lunch at this spot at S. 1st and W. Mitchell streets was excellent.
Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.
M/V John J Boland of the American Steamship Company unloads coal at the Greenfield Avenue Dock, Milwaukee, WI 19 Jun 2008. The boat’s namesake, John J Boland, along with partner Adam E Cornelius, formed the American Steamship Company in 1907. This is the fourth ASC vessel to honor Mr Boland. Built as the Charles E Wilson in 1973, it was renamed in 2000 when the John J Boland (3rd) was sold to Lower Lakes Towing--it continues to sail today for Lower Lakes as the Saginaw.
Everywhere in Wisconsin you meet these more or less small farms.
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Überall in Wisconsin trifft man auf diese mehr oder weniger kleinen Bauernhöfe.
Banner critical of the GOP hanging in the State Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin at lunchtime on a Tuesday in August
this postcard from fellow flickrite, mcbeth, is not only our first postcard from madison, wisconsin but it's also the official winner of the postcard project camera contest!
congratulations!